Conception and use of an individual-based model of residential choice in a planning decision process. Feedback from an experimental trial in the city of Besancon, France

摘要

In this paper, we present an experimental trial involving the use of a complex spatial simulation platform to support a planning decision process in the city of Besancon (eastern France). In medium-sized towns across France, households with children are leaving to settle in periurban areas, and Besancon is no exception. Under those circumstances, the political objective of the Besancon City authority is to keep middle- and high-income households with children within the city. The simulation platform MobiSim was used in this context to explore the possible outcomes of spatial planning policies, set by both the Greater Besancon authority (Besancon and the surrounding periurban communities) and the city of Besancon, on residential migrations over a 20 year period. MobiSim integrates several models representing demographic, social, economic, and spatial processes. Modelled entities are individuals and dwellings. Rules determine how individuals form households. Other rules locate dwellings in buildings.